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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in blended learning technology are making it possible for learners all around the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like California Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Professors want to know how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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