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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in blended learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These online MOOC courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations have to deal with today because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like California Institute of the Arts to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Instructors want to perceive how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this crescive need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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