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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online education have made it possible for students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous topics that elearning technology institutions are considering in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can educators assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Liechtenstein to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants need to be more aware of these promising new open educational initiatives. Instructors want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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