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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning enable people in nations all aver the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that e-learning institutions must deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators certify that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is good? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Bulgaria to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education initiatives. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This book also analyzes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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