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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take classes online. Massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because blended 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 ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Liberia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this increasing desideratum for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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