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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in blended learning technology have enabled people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology institutions must deal with more than ever because online education technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Puerto Rico to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants would like to better perceive these new open education initiatives. Intellectuals want to understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this developing desire for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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