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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in e-learning have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning institutions are considering now that elearning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Seattle Central Community College to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a developing demand to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This thrilling new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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