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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in distance learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take courses online. MOOC classes are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that blended learning institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Thailand to conduct these massive open online courses? How can educators deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Public servants want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also studies the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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