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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in distance learning are providing the means for students all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are normally free 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 numerous issues that elearning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is respectable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to better comprehend these promising new open education initiatives. Educators want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This interesting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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