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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in distance learning technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several topics that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can educators assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Tumblr to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants desire to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this developing need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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