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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in distance learning make it possible for people all over the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations are dealing with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators assure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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