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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in blended learning are enabling people all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations are struggling with now that 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 guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Namibia to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing desire for information the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also describes the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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