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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest advances in distance learning enable humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Jarvis Island to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of these significant new open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive need for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This book also addresses the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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