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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern developments in electronic education technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning organizations have to consider today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality control for these MOOC courses is respectable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Montenegro to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants need to better comprehend these compelling new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Instructors want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desideratum for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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