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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in online learning technology are enabling learners all around the world to take online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. Massive open online courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these MOOC courses? How can organizations handle inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these new open education endeavours. Academics want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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