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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in learning technology are enabling people all over the world to take part in online classes. MOOC classes are customarily free for learners 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 numerous topics that online education institutions are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Elidaemy to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this developing desire for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This new book also articulates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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