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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in online education are providing the means for people in nations all aver the world to participate in online courses. MOOC classes are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational undertakings. Instructors want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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