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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in blended learning technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning institutions have to consider now that learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Iceland to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open educational endeavours. Academics want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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