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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in online learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few issues that elearning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Guernsey to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these new open education initiatives. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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