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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in blended learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions have to consider more than ever because learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is respectable? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational endeavours. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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