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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in blended learning are enabling humans all around the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education institutions are dealing with more than ever because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to better understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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