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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology have enabled people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily 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 many topics that e-learning organizations are dealing with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Public servants want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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