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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to take online courses. MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning technology institutions are dealing with today because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we make sure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Scientists want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also addresses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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