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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest developments in e-learning technology enable learners in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. MOOC courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning organizations are struggling with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business models are being used by organizations like Niger to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Scholars want to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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