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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest gains in blended learning technology are making it possible for people all over the world to participate in online courses. These massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Guatemala to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators manage inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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