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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advancements in learning technology have enabled humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are normally 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 quite a few topics that elearning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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