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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in distance learning are making it possible for humans all over the world to take courses online. These MOOCs are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions have to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Niger 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 institutions deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to better understand these new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this need for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also addresses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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