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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that blended learning organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like MOOEC to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing need for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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