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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in blended learning technology enable humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a developing need to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this developing desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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