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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest developments in elearning technology enable people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning organizations have to consider more than ever because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to understand these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To respond to this crescive need for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also articulates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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