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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in blended learning technology are empowering people all around the world to participate in classes online. Massive open online courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this expanding demand for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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