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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in distance learning technology have enabled people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Slovenia to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to perceive how MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desideratum for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also researches the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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