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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online learning have empowered people all over the world to be participants in classes online. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Denmark to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Scientists want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this growing need for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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