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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in blended learning technology have made it possible for people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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