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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest changes in e-learning technology have empowered students in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is all right? How can we certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Luxembourg to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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