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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in e-learning technology have empowered learners all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are generally free for learners 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 variety of issues that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants want to understand these new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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