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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in digital education technology have enabled students all around the world to be participants in classes online. These massive open online courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous topics that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also examines 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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