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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in blended learning have enabled learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions are having to consider now that online education technology is developing 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 teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Spain to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to comprehend how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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