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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in electronic education technology have empowered humans all around the world to take online courses. MOOC classes are usually free 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 numerous topics that e-learning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Greece to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a necessity to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these open education undertakings. Public servants want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding need for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also explores the major 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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