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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in electronic education technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free 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 quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations are considering now that learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can organizations handle low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend these open education experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also investigates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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