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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates subjects having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest advances in elearning technology are making it possible for students in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to be more aware of these open education endeavours. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing need for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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