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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in technology-enhanced learning have enabled students all over the world to be participants in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education initiatives. Intellectuals want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This definitive new book also describes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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