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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in blended learning technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations are having to deal with today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Sweden to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this growing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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