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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in elearning have enabled students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions have to deal with today because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can participants make sure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to better perceive these exciting new open educational ventures. Instructors want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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