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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in blended learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few issues that distance learning organizations are considering today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Public servants want to know how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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