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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in blended learning technology have enabled people all around the world to take part in online courses. These massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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