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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in blended learning technology enable students in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning organizations are having to consider today because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Howland Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education initiatives. Lecturers want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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