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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in blended learning technology are empowering learners all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle low student motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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