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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest advances in digital education technology enable humans in all parts of the world to take courses online. These massive open online courses are usually 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 numerous issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This gripping new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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