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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new changes in e-learning have empowered people in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are considering now that online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Rwanda to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can institutions handle low motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to better grasp these fascinating new open educational ventures. Scientists want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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