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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in blended learning technology are enabling humans all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that elearning technology organizations must deal with now that learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Switzerland to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these fascinating new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing demand for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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