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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in elearning are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that blended learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, San Diego to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a need to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Educators want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This gripping new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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