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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in digital education technology are enabling humans all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many subjects that blended learning organizations are dealing with now that online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants certify that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Romania to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these open educational initiatives. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this expanding desire for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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