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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in blended learning technology have empowered people all over the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. 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 MOOC courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on low student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to better grasp these exciting new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this crescive need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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