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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in distance learning make it possible for people in nations all aver the world to participate in online classes. These online MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that elearning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the training provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like University of Central Florida to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants need to understand these exciting new open educational experiments. Teachers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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