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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in e-learning technology have empowered humans all over the world to take part in courses online. MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are many issues that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on low student motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This new book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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