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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern gains in electronic educational technology have empowered humans in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners 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 issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand these open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also explores the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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