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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in digital education technology have provided the means for learners all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning institutions are having to deal with today because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like British Sovereign Base Areas to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and lots of other participants desire to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this increasing need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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