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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in blended learning technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Bhutan to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants want to understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing demand for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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