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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in blended learning technology have made it possible for people all over the world to take courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with now that blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Heard Island and McDonald Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants need to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing need for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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