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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning have empowered humans in nations all aver the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? 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 organizations like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage poor motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this growing desideratum for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also talks about the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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