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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in e-learning technology are empowering students all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Bhutan to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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