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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in blended learning have empowered people in nations all around the world to take part in classes online. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the education provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Estonia to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to better perceive these compelling new open education experiments. Researchers want to grasp how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this developing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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