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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern gains in distance learning have enabled people all over the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning organizations are considering in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can we guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Bowling Green State University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can participants deal with inadequate learner 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 distance learning becomes more procurable there is a desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants would like to better perceive these new open education undertakings. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this developing need for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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