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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in elearning make it possible for learners all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that e-learning technology institutions are having to consider today because 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 be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Haiti to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a developing need to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing need for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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