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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in online education technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few subjects that online learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Australia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a demand to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Teachers want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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