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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in electronic educational technology have provided the means for people all around the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are numerous issues that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like LinkedIn to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a necessity to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive these interesting new open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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