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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in e-learning technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because learning technology is improving so fast. How can we make sure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Jarvis Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants would like to understand these significant new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also researches the 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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