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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in electronic educational technology have enabled humans in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students 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 a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers make sure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Academics want to know how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this developing desideratum for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This thrilling new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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