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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new evolvements in electronic educational technology enable students in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that online learning organizations are considering today because blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Costa Rica to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to better grasp these significant new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This book also explores the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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