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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest developments in blended learning enable learners all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can we certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like MenaVersity to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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