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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in learning technology are providing the means for students in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly 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 a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Israel to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive these intriguing new open education endeavours. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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