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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education are empowering humans all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology institutions have to consider today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive these open educational experiments. Professors want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing need for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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