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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in e-learning enable humans in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are several issues that distance learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Open2Study to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these significant new open educational ventures. Educators want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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