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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in blended learning technology have provided the means for people in nations all aver the world to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so fast. How can educators assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Mali to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This book also addresses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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