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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in blended learning are enabling students all around the world to be participants 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. Massive open online courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions must deal with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like American Samoa to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this developing desideratum for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also explores the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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