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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in online learning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. MOOCs are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that online education organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we certify that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like New Caledonia to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can we handle issues like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to better grasp these exciting new open educational experiments. Scientists want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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