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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in online learning technology are making it possible for people in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are struggling with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Johnston Atoll to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to know how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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