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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new evolvements in online education are enabling students all over the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions are struggling with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Timor-Leste (East Timor) to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a desire to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open education endeavours. Everyone wants to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive demand for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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