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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in technology-enhanced learning have made it possible for learners all around the world to take online classes. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are many issues that elearning technology institutions are struggling with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. How can teachers be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can we certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to better grasp these intriguing new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to comprehend how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also researches the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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