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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in digital education technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massively open online courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like openHPI to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these open educational endeavours. Corporations want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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