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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New gains in elearning have made it possible for people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This scholarly volume offer guidelines for educators hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment. How can organizations ensure that the quality control for these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp these significant new open educational experiments. Public servants want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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