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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in elearning are empowering students in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that 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 be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Broward College to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants need to better perceive these new open educational experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing need for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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