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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in electronic education technology are empowering students all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can participants assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can learners certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like Liechtenstein to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these fascinating new open educational ventures. Professors want to better understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this growing demand for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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