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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in electronic education technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are having to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Twitter to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants want to better grasp these exciting new open educational initiatives. Scholars want to perceive how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this expanding demand for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also explores the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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