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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in online learning are enabling learners in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOC courses are mostly 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 many topics that learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants would like to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This sensational new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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