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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in blended learning technology are enabling students all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These massive online courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with low motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Students want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this crescive need for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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