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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in online education technology are empowering students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations must deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This sensational new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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