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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online learning technology have made it possible for people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Kenya to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational undertakings. Corporations want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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