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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online education are empowering people all over the world to take online classes. These MOOC courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions are having to consider today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these open educational undertakings. Teachers want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this growing demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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