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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest gains in distance learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. These massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that learning technology institutions are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Cornell University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders need to understand these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to know how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this growing demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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