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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in blended learning technology enable people all around the world to take classes online. These massively open online courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with now that distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a increasing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational initiatives. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this growing desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also talks about the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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