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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in elearning enable students in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations are considering today because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Palmyra Atoll to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This sensational new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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