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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in electronic education technology have enabled students all over the world to take part in classes online. These massive online courses are generally 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 quite a few topics that online education organizations have to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp these significant new open education experiments. Professors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also researches the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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