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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in e-learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that online education organizations are having to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by institutions like Laos to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these new open education ventures. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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