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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in online education technology have empowered humans all around the world to participate in online classes. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that blended learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because online education technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations certify that the quality control for these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can organizations make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Jordan to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants would like to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this growing need for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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