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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education technology are making it possible for learners in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning institutions have to struggle with today because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like El Salvador to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a need to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants would like to better grasp these new open educational ventures. Trainers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To meet this developing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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