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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in learning technology enable students in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily 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 quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Canvas Network to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open educational endeavours. Scientists want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This gripping new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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