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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in distance learning have enabled students all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning institutions have to deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this increasing desire for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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