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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in online education have empowered learners in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. These massive online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several topics that learning technology institutions have to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Peninsula College to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these exciting new open education endeavours. Students want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This thrilling new book also researches the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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