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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in online learning make it possible for students all over the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we ensure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Haiti to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with poor motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend these intriguing new open educational experiments. Professors want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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