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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in e-learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also addresses the 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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