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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent changes in distance learning technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with now that blended learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions make sure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Lithuania to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education endeavours. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing demand for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also researches the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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