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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in online education enable people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students 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 a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Queen Maud Land to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a developing need to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to understand these significant new open educational endeavours. Trainers want to perceive how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this need for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also addresses the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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