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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in learning technology have enabled students all over the world to take part in online courses. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Columbia University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these open education experiments. Teachers want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also articulates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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