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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in blended learning technology have enabled students all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free 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 subjects that blended learning institutions are struggling with today because learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Mali to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Instructors want to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Educational Resources