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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in electronic educational technology are enabling learners all around the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are many topics that online learning institutions are dealing with now that online learning technology is developing so fast. How can we assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massive open online courses? How can institutions manage low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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