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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in online education technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to take online classes. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning organizations have to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like poor motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and many other participants desire to be more aware of these exciting new open education experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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