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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online education technology are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massively open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning organizations are having to consider now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Morocco to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also articulates the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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