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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in blended learning technology are enabling learners all around the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Duke University to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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