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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in online education have empowered people in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are generally 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 a variety of topics that elearning organizations must deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators assure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle poor student motivation and high attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Educators want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this developing demand for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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