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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in e-learning have enabled students all over the world to take online classes. These online MOOCs are commonly free 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 subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with today because online education technology is developing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage problems like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants need to better comprehend these promising new open educational undertakings. Corporations want to perceive how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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