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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in digital education technology are enabling people all around the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology institutions are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants get a handle on poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this increasing desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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