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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education technology are empowering people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of subjects that online learning institutions are considering in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Nauru to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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