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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in blended learning technology are enabling people all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online education institutions have to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices 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 the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants would like to better comprehend these intriguing new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this growing demand for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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