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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in blended learning enable people in nations all around the world to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning organizations must deal with today because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Vatican City to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This inspiring new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Massively Open Online Courses (moocs)