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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in e-learning are enabling humans in nations all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are customarily 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 many issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants want to better grasp these compelling new open education experiments. Students want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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