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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in blended learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. These MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are considering now that learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Laos to conduct these massively open online courses? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open education endeavours. Professors want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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