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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in digital education technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to take online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of topics that learning technology organizations are having to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators make sure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants need to better perceive these open education undertakings. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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