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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in blended learning technology enable learners all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are struggling with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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