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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in online education technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to take online classes. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations are having to struggle with now that blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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