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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in electronic educational technology have provided the means for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Ukraine to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing need for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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