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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in online education have enabled people in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that elearning technology institutions are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Monaco to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This exciting new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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