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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in electronic educational technology are enabling people all around the world to take classes online. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many topics that learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a growing need to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open education undertakings. Lecturers want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also describes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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