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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in online learning technology make it possible for people in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning organizations are having to deal with now that blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants certify that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Ohio State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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