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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New gains in distance learning are providing the means for people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a need to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Instructors want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This gripping new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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