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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses. New advances in distance learning technology are empowering students in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education experiments. Students want to grasp how MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this growing demand for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This thrilling new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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