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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest advances in blended learning are enabling students all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that blended learning organizations are having to deal with now that distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these intriguing new open education experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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