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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online education are empowering people all around the world to take online classes. These MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are several issues that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. People want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This inspiring new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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