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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in online learning enable people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that blended learning organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these new open educational undertakings. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing desideratum for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This inspiring new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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