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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in digital education technology enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning institutions have to deal with now that blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators assure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Egypt to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This amazing new book also deals with the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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