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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in blended learning are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that e-learning organizations are struggling with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants want to better grasp these important new open educational undertakings. People want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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