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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in distance learning technology have enabled humans all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of subjects that e-learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage problems like low motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these open education undertakings. People want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this crescive need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also deals with the key 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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