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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in distance learning technology are enabling humans all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are usually free for students 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 a lot of issues that online education organizations are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Aruba to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to better perceive these promising new open education undertakings. Professors want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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