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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in digital education technology enable students all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the education provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Haiti to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Trainers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing demand for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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