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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates subjects related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in e-learning make it possible for humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that distance learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open education initiatives. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this growing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This inspiring new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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