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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New changes in distance learning technology enable students in every nation on earth to take online classes. MOOC classes are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning institutions have to struggle with today because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions ensure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business models are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this increasing need for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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