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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning technology enable people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC classes are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that e-learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage low motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive these fascinating new open educational initiatives. Public servants want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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