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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in blended learning technology have empowered people all over the world to take part in courses online. These MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning institutions have to struggle with now that distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these important new open education experiments. Scientists want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desideratum for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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