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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advancements in online learning are providing the means for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are commonly 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 numerous topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Northwestern University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to better grasp these new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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