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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in blended learning have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC classes are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of subjects that learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions certify that the quality control for these massive open online courses is adequate? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Saint Helena to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Trainers want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This sensational new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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