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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advancements in elearning technology enable humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that elearning technology organizations are having to consider now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Minnesota to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive these exciting new open educational undertakings. Students want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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