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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in e-learning enable humans all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These 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 lot of topics that elearning organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Denmark to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these significant new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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