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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern developments in distance learning technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology organizations must deal with now that blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Korea, South to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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