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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online education technology enable people all around the world to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are many topics that blended learning organizations have to consider now that online learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage low motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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