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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in distance learning are empowering people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of subjects that blended learning institutions are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also researches the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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