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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in distance learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations are having to deal with now that blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Mauritania to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with low motivation and high learner attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these exciting new open education endeavours. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desire for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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