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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in blended learning technology enable humans all around the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOCs are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that learning technology organizations are having to consider more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we make sure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is passable? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Tokelau to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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