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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in blended learning have empowered students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are struggling with now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Guernsey to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this expanding desideratum for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This new book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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