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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online education are providing the means for people all around the world to take classes online. These MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education institutions are having to attend to more than ever because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we make sure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Kenya to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can educators deal with inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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