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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern developments in distance learning technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to take online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are several topics that online learning technology institutions must deal with now that blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also describes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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