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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in elearning have enabled students in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational endeavours. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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