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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in online learning have enabled people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are customarily 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 subjects that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators make sure that the quality of these MOOCs is adequate? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Scholars want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This inspiring new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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