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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in blended learning make it possible for learners all around the world to be participants in online classes. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online education organizations have to consider now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Bermuda to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these promising new open educational initiatives. Everybody wants to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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