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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in blended learning are enabling people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology institutions have to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by institutions like Cyprus to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this need for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also researches the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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