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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern changes in digital education technology make it possible for students all around the world to participate in online courses. 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. These massive online courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning institutions have to deal with now that online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is respectable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Tokelau to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education ventures. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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