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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. New developments in learning technology are making it possible for humans in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These online MOOCs are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations are having to consider today because learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Japan to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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