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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online education have enabled people all over the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are normally 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 many subjects that online education organizations are having to deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Spain to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp these exciting new open education ventures. Corporations want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This sensational new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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