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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest evolvements in blended learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that elearning technology institutions must deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Cuba to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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