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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in blended learning technology make it possible for people all around the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that online education institutions must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Belgium to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of these significant new open education experiments. Educators want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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