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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in online education technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are normally 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like low motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a growing need to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants desire to better understand these interesting new open education undertakings. Teachers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also deals with 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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