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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in blended learning are enabling people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Reddit to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand these interesting new open education initiatives. Scholars want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this increasing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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