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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in learning technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are free 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 many issues that elearning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational undertakings. Trainers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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