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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern developments in elearning technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning institutions are struggling with today because online education technology is developing so fast. How can organizations assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp these important new open educational ventures. Students want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also studies the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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