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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in online learning enable humans in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning technology institutions must deal with more than ever because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions make sure that the training provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants want to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing desideratum for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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