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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest gains in online education enable people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning institutions are having to deal with today because blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Guernsey to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants desire to understand these exciting new open education experiments. Scientists want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This book also studies the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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