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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in digital education technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that blended learning organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Finland to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle problems like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also describes the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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