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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in blended learning technology enable students all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open online courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology organizations are considering today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Malaysia to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Students want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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