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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in blended learning have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to take online classes. These massive online courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions must deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education ventures. Researchers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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