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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education technology enable humans all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily 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 lot of issues that online education organizations are having to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is adequate? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Ireland to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders need to better grasp these significant new open education endeavours. Scholars want to perceive how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive demand for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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