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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in online learning are providing the means for people all over the world to take part in online classes. MOOC classes are mostly 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can educators make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about these important new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOC Massively Open Online Course