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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in distance learning enable people all over the world to take part in courses online. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that blended learning institutions must deal with now that elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Mongolia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education experiments. Teachers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also addresses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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