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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest advances in elearning make it possible for students all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that learning technology institutions are considering today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to be more aware of these compelling new open education experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing demand for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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