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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in electronic educational technology have enabled people all over the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions are having to consider today because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Kenya to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to better perceive these compelling new open educational undertakings. Scholars want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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