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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in e-learning technology are empowering students in all parts of the world to take part in online classes. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners 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 online learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Solomon Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive these significant new open educational undertakings. Scholars want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive need for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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