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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in e-learning technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to take classes online. These MOOCs are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Seychelles to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and numerous other participants need to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this developing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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