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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in blended learning enable people all around the world to take part in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is developing so fast. How can we make sure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Wake Island to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a developing necessity to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Everybody wants to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This gripping new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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