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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in distance learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. These online MOOCs are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Pakistan to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also articulates the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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