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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in distance learning technology have enabled people in nations all aver the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive need for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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