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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in blended learning have empowered humans in every nation on earth to take courses online. These massively open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning institutions are dealing with now that elearning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Gibraltar to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of these new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this desideratum for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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