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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in electronic educational technology have empowered learners in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always 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 struggling with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like United Kingdom to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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