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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in online education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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