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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New changes in digital education technology have enabled learners in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these important new open educational experiments. Scholars want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive need for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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