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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in blended learning enable humans all over the world to participate in online classes. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Palmyra Atoll to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education endeavours. Scientists want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also reviews the major 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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