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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest advances in learning technology are providing the means for students in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are having to consider today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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