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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in digital education technology enable people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are commonly free for students 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 learning technology institutions are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business models are being used by institutions like Columbia University to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing need for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This thrilling 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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