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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about subjects having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in online education technology are empowering people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Czech Republic to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a need to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this need for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also researches the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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