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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern changes in blended learning technology enable students all over the world to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Cook Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also describes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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