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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates subjects having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in blended learning technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many issues that online learning organizations have to consider today because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators certify that the training provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these significant new open educational experiments. Scholars want to grasp how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this need for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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