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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in blended learning technology are enabling people all over the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Marshall Islands to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to better understand these promising new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. In response to this crescive demand for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also articulates the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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