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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in distance learning technology have provided the means for people all over the world to take part in online classes. Massive open online courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning institutions have to deal with today because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by organizations like Algeria to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. People want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also addresses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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