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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in online education are empowering humans in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning organizations are considering in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Turkmenistan to conduct these massively open online courses? What 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 teachers deal with low motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to better perceive these exciting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing need for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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