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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in distance learning technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to take part in courses online. These massive online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning organizations have to deal with now that distance learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like United Kingdom to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also addresses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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