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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new evolvements in blended learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Professors want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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