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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in blended learning have provided the means for people in nations all aver the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants make sure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Somalia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Students want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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