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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in online learning are making it possible for humans in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like British Indian Ocean Territory to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Scientists want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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