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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in elearning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that blended learning organizations have to struggle with now that online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like China, Republic of (Taiwan) to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this developing desire for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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