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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest advances in online education are enabling people all over the world to participate in classes online. These online MOOCs are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions certify that the quality control for these massive open online courses is respectable? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Kenya to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive these exciting new open educational experiments. Teachers want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This exciting new book also deals with the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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