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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in digital education technology have enabled humans all over the world to be participants in online classes. These online MOOC courses 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 numerous topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Students want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This new book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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