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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in blended learning are empowering learners all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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