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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in electronic education technology are providing the means for people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology institutions are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these open education initiatives. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this developing need for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also researches the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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