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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in blended learning technology have enabled learners all around the world to take courses online. These massive open online courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the quality of these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Turks and Caicos Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Public servants want to understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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