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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in e-learning technology have made it possible for people in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that elearning institutions have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Bouvet Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education experiments. Educators want to perceive how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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