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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in e-learning make it possible for people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. 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 classes are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions are having to attend to now that learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Liberia to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants want to better understand these exciting new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scholars want to perceive how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this demand for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also researches the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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