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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in elearning are empowering students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free 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 e-learning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the education provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like University of New Mexico to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants want to better comprehend these exciting new open education endeavours. Academics want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. In response to this crescive desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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