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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in distance learning make it possible for people in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by organizations like Solomon Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also articulates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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