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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in digital education technology have enabled humans all around the world to take part in online courses. These online MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning organizations have to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Canvas Network to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This inspiring new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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