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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in online learning are enabling humans in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Educators want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also considers the most important 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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