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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in e-learning make it possible for humans in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Duke University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also studies the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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