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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in electronic educational technology have empowered students all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders be assured that the training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators get a handle on inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp these open educational experiments. Scientists want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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