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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in online education technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are numerous issues that e-learning institutions are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants want to better grasp these important new open educational endeavours. Educators want to know how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also researches the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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