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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern developments in distance learning have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Florida to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As online learning becomes more procurable there is a necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for knowledge the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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