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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in learning technology enable people all around the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that elearning organizations are having to consider today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Zambia to conduct these MOOCs? What 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 organizations deal with the problems of poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this growing need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This gripping new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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