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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in e-learning are providing the means for people all around the world to take online classes. These massive open courses are commonly free for students 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 many issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Benin to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this desire for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also researches the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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