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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in electronic education technology have empowered humans all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions are having to attend to now that 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 educators assure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like British Sovereign Base Areas to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can organizations handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to better grasp these compelling new open education endeavours. Universities want to know how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desideratum for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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