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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in digital education technology are empowering people in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning organizations are struggling with more than ever because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Researchers want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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