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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in blended learning technology are empowering students in every nation on earth to take online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning organizations are considering more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Haiti to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators get a handle on low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants want to understand these significant new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this growing desideratum for details the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This thrilling new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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