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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in distance learning technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. These online MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education organizations have to struggle with now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Israel to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Scientists want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this developing need for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education topics. This interesting new book also describes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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