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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in electronic education technology have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Meetup to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Teachers want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this developing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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