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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in distance learning technology have enabled humans all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning institutions are considering more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also deals with the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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