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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in blended learning technology enable humans all around the world to be participants in classes online. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning institutions must deal with more than ever because online education technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open education undertakings. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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