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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest gains in learning technology are enabling learners all around the world to take classes online. These MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning institutions have to consider today because elearning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open educational endeavours. People want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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