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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advancements in online learning have enabled students all over the world to take part in online courses. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can educators handle issues like poor motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these open education experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also articulates the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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