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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in electronic educational technology are providing the means for learners in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many subjects that online education institutions must deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the quality of these MOOC classes is adequate? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Laos to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Universities want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this need for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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