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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest changes in e-learning technology are enabling learners all over the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOCs are usually free for students but do not consistently 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 issues that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers ensure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants want to better comprehend these intriguing new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This exciting new book also investigates the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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