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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in blended learning technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOCs are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Palau to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more available there is a developing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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