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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent changes in electronic education technology make it possible for people in all parts of the world to take part in online classes. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Irvine to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive these new open educational ventures. Everyone wants to know how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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