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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in blended learning technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning organizations are considering now that online learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Australian Antarctic Territory to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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