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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in blended learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning organizations are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Somaliland to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this expanding desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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