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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in e-learning have enabled students in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily 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 numerous subjects that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of New Mexico to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these open education ventures. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this expanding need for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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