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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. New gains in technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always 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 several topics that e-learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions make sure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Universities want to perceive how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this developing desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also deals with the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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