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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest gains in elearning technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students 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 learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like California Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational undertakings. Universities want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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