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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning technology make it possible for learners in all parts of the world to take part in online classes. MOOCs are ordinarily 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 a lot of topics that e-learning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like iversity to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding need for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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