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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in blended learning technology have enabled people all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? How can stakeholders get a handle on inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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