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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in online education technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Bouvet Island to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Instructors want to perceive how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this desideratum for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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