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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in distance learning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning organizations are having to consider today because blended learning technology is developing 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 teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also addresses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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