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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in distance learning technology are making it possible for learners in all parts of the world to take courses online. These massive online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few subjects that elearning institutions are dealing with now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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