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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in blended learning technology make it possible for people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers certify that the quality control for these massive open online courses is respectable? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Portugal to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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