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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in blended learning technology are enabling students all over the world to be participants in online classes. MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with today because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Guatemala to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants need to understand these new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this developing desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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