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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in blended learning technology are empowering learners in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. MOOCs are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that 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 institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Students want to grasp how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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