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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in distance learning are empowering people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOCs are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive these interesting new open educational experiments. Trainers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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