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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in distance learning are enabling students in every nation on earth to take classes online. MOOCs are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Professors want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This sensational new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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