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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in blended learning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we certify that the training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Cuba to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this increasing need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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