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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in online education technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning institutions are having to attend to now that online learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Belgium to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education ventures. Instructors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also deals with the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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