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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New changes in digital education technology have empowered people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are struggling with now that learning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the education provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education experiments. Researchers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also deals with the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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