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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in electronic education technology are empowering learners all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Mali to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive these open educational initiatives. Scholars want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this developing desire for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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