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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in blended learning technology have empowered learners in nations all around the world to take online classes. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these open education initiatives. Lecturers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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