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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in online education technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are having to consider today because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Qatar to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental 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 we handle inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to know how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This book also discusses the major 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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