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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in blended learning technology are providing the means for learners all over the world to take online courses. 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. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to now that learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Public servants want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive need for data the exciting 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 exciting new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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