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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in electronic educational technology have made it possible for learners all around the world to participate in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations must deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Twitter to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants need to better grasp these interesting new open education experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desideratum for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This new book also addresses the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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