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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in online education enable people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several topics that elearning institutions are having to struggle with today because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. People want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this expanding need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This inspiring new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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