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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in blended learning are making it possible for students all over the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Angola to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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