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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in distance learning have provided the means for students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are usually 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 numerous subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Sao Tome and Principe to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to better grasp these promising new open educational ventures. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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