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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online education have empowered learners in every nation on earth to take online courses. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is passable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Ball State University to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to better comprehend these intriguing new open educational ventures. Professors want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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