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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in electronic educational technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to take part in classes online. These online MOOCs are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is developing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business models are being used by institutions like Northern Cyprus to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these important new open educational undertakings. Teachers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this desire for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also researches the controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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