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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest evolvements in learning technology have provided the means for learners all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions have to deal with today because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Moldova to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this increasing need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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