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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in digital education technology have enabled people all around the world to take part in online courses. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational undertakings. Students want to grasp how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This book also deals with the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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