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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in distance learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning institutions are struggling with today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can participants deal with inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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