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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in blended learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations are considering now that blended learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Google+ to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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