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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about subjects related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New gains in blended learning technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business models are being used by institutions like Wallis and Futuna to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Teachers want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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