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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest evolvements in distance learning technology have enabled people all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC classes are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of topics that blended learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because online education technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Maldives to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a growing need to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Everyone wants to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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