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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in electronic education technology are enabling people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always 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 many issues that online education organizations have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these significant new open educational initiatives. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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