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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores subjects regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest evolvements in blended learning are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Cook Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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