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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in learning technology are making it possible for people all over the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are commonly 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 subjects that online learning organizations must deal with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This new book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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