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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. New developments in electronic educational technology are enabling learners in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC classes are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Ireland to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open educational endeavours. Universities want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desideratum for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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