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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in elearning are enabling learners all over the world to take courses online. These massive open online courses are customarily 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 variety of subjects that elearning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like UCSF to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants want to better comprehend these open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding desideratum for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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