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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in electronic educational technology enable people in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning institutions are considering 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 stakeholders guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Israel to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how these MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this expanding desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education topics. This inspiring new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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