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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in elearning are making it possible for students all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Finland to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Students want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing need for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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