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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are free for students 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 quite a few topics that online education organizations have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like California Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a growing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these new open education experiments. Teachers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding demand for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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