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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in online education have enabled students all around the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are usually free 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 quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions must deal with now that distance learning technology is developing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders be assured that the education provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Wake Island to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Trainers want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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