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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New evolvements in digital education technology have enabled humans all over the world to take courses online. MOOCs are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous subjects that distance learning institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we assure that the quality of these MOOCs is good? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more available there is a developing desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open education experiments. Scientists want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding demand for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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