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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in distance learning have empowered people in every nation on earth to take courses online. These massive online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of subjects that online learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can learners certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Korea, North to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this increasing demand for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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