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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in blended learning technology enable humans in all parts of the world to take courses online. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology institutions have to deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers ensure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Universities want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this developing demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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