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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in blended learning have empowered people all over the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning organizations have to consider now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Oman to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Everyone wants to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This thrilling new book also addresses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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