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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in distance learning technology enable people all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning institutions have to deal with now that blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Iceland to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these important new open educational experiments. Professors want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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