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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in blended learning technology have empowered students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can we make sure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of South Florida to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these promising new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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