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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in e-learning have enabled people all around the world to take part in online classes. These massive open online courses are commonly free for learners 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 several subjects that online education institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This exciting new book also addresses the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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