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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New developments in electronic educational technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are normally 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 quite a few subjects that online learning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions make sure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this demand for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This book also articulates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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