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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in blended learning are enabling people all around the world to participate in courses online. MOOC classes are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are considering more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants certify that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Students want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding need for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also deals with the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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