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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in learning technology are empowering learners in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that online learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is good? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Estonia to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants desire to better comprehend these fascinating new open education undertakings. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This exciting new book also analyzes 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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