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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in digital education technology are enabling learners all around the world to participate in online classes. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These online MOOC courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous subjects that online learning technology institutions are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants certify that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Broward College to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this growing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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