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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies subjects regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in e-learning are making it possible for people in nations all around the world to take part in classes online. These MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend these open education experiments. Academics want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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