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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern developments in online education technology make it possible for people in nations all around the world to take online classes. These massive online courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning institutions are dealing with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp these intriguing new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also reviews the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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