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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in online education have empowered learners in nations all aver the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are several subjects that online education organizations have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Gibraltar to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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