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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest gains in blended learning technology have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to take online courses. MOOC classes are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online education technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Cook Islands to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these new open education experiments. Scientists want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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