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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest changes in distance learning technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants certify that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can stakeholders get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also articulates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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