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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in blended learning have provided the means for humans in nations all around the world to take part in online classes. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning institutions are considering today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to understand these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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