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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online learning technology have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are typically free for learners 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 many subjects that elearning organizations are having to struggle with today because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these compelling new open educational experiments. Students want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also studies the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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