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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in blended learning technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage issues like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational ventures. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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