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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in digital education technology have made it possible for people all around the world to take part in online classes. These massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning institutions are struggling with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is respectable? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. Scholars want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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