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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in online education have enabled people in every nation on earth to take online courses. These online MOOCs are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UWashingtonX to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with low motivation and high learner attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As online education becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to better perceive these new open education experiments. Students want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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