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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in electronic education technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Switzerland to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants would like to better perceive these promising new open education ventures. Instructors want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This interesting new book also explores the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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