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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New improvements in online education technology enable people in every nation on earth to take online classes. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that e-learning organizations must deal with now that 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 participants certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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