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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest gains in online learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These online MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to consider more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like Namibia to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education ventures. Everybody wants to know how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this desideratum for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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