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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in online learning technology enable learners all around the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are considering more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Greenland to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp these significant new open educational undertakings. Professors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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