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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in e-learning are empowering humans in nations all around the world to take courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning institutions are having to deal with today because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive need for knowledge the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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