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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in electronic educational technology are empowering students in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because 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 stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Oman to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a growing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Academics want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This thrilling new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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