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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in digital education technology enable humans in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Utah to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of low student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this need for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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