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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in online learning have empowered people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are usually free for students 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 lot of topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education undertakings. Students want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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