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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in blended learning technology have enabled humans all over the world to participate in classes online. These massive online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can institutions certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Professors want to understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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