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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in blended learning have empowered humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are normally 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 a lot of subjects that online learning organizations are having to consider today because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like Norway to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a developing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open educational experiments. Researchers want to grasp how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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