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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in distance learning are providing the means for students all around the world to take part in online classes. These online MOOCs are customarily 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 many topics that e-learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these promising new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to perceive how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This inspiring new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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