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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning technology are enabling people all around the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are having to consider today because blended learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like University of Colorado Boulder to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders want to better understand these exciting new open education ventures. Universities want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this crescive need for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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