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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in blended learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take online classes. These massively open online courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning technology institutions are struggling with more than ever because online 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 of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Tajikistan to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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