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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in blended learning enable people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp these fascinating new open educational experiments. Instructors want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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