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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in blended learning technology enable humans all around the world to take part in online classes. These massive online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions have to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. People want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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