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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in digital education technology enable people all around the world to participate in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive online courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to understand these significant new open educational ventures. Lecturers want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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