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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in distance learning are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to take classes online. These online MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants want to better comprehend these compelling new open educational undertakings. Public servants want to perceive how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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