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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in blended learning enable students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Lebanon to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like low motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Instructors want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this growing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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