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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in online education have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning institutions are considering today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these open education ventures. Public servants want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This sensational new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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