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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in blended learning enable people in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that learning technology organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Guyana to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can participants get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Instructors want to know how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this developing need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also investigates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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