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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in learning technology enable people all around the world to be participants in online classes. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology institutions are struggling with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Twitter to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants need to be more aware of these promising new open education endeavours. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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