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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in blended learning technology are empowering people all around the world to take classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions have to struggle with now that learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to be more aware of these intriguing new open education ventures. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also reviews the major controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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