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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology are empowering people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants would like to better understand these compelling new open educational endeavours. Intellectuals want to grasp how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desideratum for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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