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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in electronic education technology enable people all over the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open courses are normally free 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 lot of topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Rwaq to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education ventures. Lecturers want to know how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This sensational new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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