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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in distance learning enable learners all around the world to participate in online classes. 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 many topics that learning technology organizations are considering now that online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational experiments. Teachers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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