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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in blended learning are making it possible for people in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning organizations are having to consider today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Teachers want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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