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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern gains in blended learning are empowering people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many subjects that distance learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders need to understand these compelling new open educational endeavours. Professors want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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