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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest advancements in e-learning technology are enabling people all over the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning institutions have to deal with more than ever because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can learners certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Portugal to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a desire to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these intriguing new open education endeavours. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this increasing desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This interesting new book also studies 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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