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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in digital education technology have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning institutions have to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can participants assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is adequate? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants need to be more aware of these exciting new open education experiments. Teachers want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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