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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in blended learning technology have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to take online classes. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Faroe Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing demand for details the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This book also talks about the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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