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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in distance learning are enabling learners in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open online courses are normally free for learners 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 a variety of topics that online education organizations are struggling with more than ever because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Teachers want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for knowledge the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also investigates the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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