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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in blended learning technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators ensure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like California Institute of the Arts to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this expanding demand for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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