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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in distance learning have empowered people all around the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are many issues that e-learning technology organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and many other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these open education initiatives. Corporations want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This thrilling new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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