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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New gains in elearning are empowering people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that elearning organizations are dealing with today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Meetup to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend these exciting new open education endeavours. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this expanding desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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