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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in elearning have empowered humans in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several topics that elearning institutions are having to attend to now that online education technology is improving so fast. How can we assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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