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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for humans all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of topics that online education institutions are having to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to perceive how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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