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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest gains in electronic educational technology enable humans all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can educators ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive these promising new open educational initiatives. Lecturers want to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also addresses the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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