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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in online education technology are providing the means for learners all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are usually free for learners 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 online education institutions must deal with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive these open education endeavours. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also researches the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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