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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in digital education technology are enabling students all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning organizations are dealing with today because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This scholarly volume offer guidelines for educators hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment. How can institutions make sure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Teachers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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