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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online learning have empowered people in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. MOOC classes are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that blended learning institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses? 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 participants deal with poor motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand these open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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