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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in blended learning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. 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. MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations are having to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like British Sovereign Base Areas to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants desire to better understand these exciting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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