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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in elearning technology enable people all around the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning organizations are having to consider now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. People want to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing need for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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