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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest gains in online education are providing the means for people all around the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massively open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these important new open education initiatives. Educators want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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