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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for humans all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are several topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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