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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in electronic educational technology have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. MOOC classes are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions are having to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Qatar to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Researchers want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this increasing need for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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