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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in digital education technology are enabling learners all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are considering now that online education technology is developing so quickly. How can we assure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Italy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants want to better grasp these open educational endeavours. Universities want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this expanding demand for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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