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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in technology-enhanced learning make it possible for people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning organizations must deal with today because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online 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 University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. People want to perceive how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This new book also researches the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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