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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in learning technology enable students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning institutions must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed 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 models are being used by institutions like One Month to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these significant new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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