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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern changes in e-learning technology are enabling people all over the world to take part in classes online. These massively open online courses are typically 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 a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can we make sure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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