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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in elearning technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not 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 organizations must deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like Santa Clara University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp these compelling new open education experiments. Academics want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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