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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in digital education technology enable people all over the world to participate in online classes. These MOOC courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations must deal with now that online education technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Lithuania to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Scientists want to understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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