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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in blended learning are empowering learners in nations all aver the world to participate in online classes. MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that blended learning institutions have to struggle with today because blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like The New School to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these important new open education experiments. Scientists want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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