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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in digital education technology enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for students 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 distance learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational undertakings. Educators want to grasp how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this need for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also investigates the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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