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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest advancements in distance learning enable learners all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive online courses are customarily free 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology institutions are struggling with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like South Africa to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these compelling new open education undertakings. Educators want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This inspiring new book also articulates the controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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