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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in online education technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These MOOC classes are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because online 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 assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of these compelling new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This inspiring new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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