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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in digital education technology are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily 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 a variety of subjects that online learning technology organizations are considering now that elearning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Emory University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to better perceive these important new open education experiments. Academics want to know how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this growing need for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also deals with the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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