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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online learning have provided the means for people in nations all aver the world to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC classes are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are dealing with today because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Trainers want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also articulates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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