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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in online education technology enable humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning organizations are dealing with now that online learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on low student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these important new open education ventures. Academics want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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