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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in electronic educational technology enable people in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students 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 subjects that learning technology organizations must deal with today because online education technology is advancing so quickly. This scholarly volume offer guidelines for educators hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment. How can educators assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Comoros to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants need to better grasp these important new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the major 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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