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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online education have empowered people in every nation on earth to take classes online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few topics that learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Timor-Leste (East Timor) to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational ventures. Lecturers want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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