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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in digital education technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are free for students 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 a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the education provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open education experiments. Teachers want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for information the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This inspiring new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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