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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in online education technology have enabled people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses 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 several subjects that distance learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like India to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Public servants want to perceive how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding desire for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This inspiring new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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