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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in distance learning technology enable people all over the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations are having to deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers make sure that the quality of these massive open online courses is respectable? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators get a handle on poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants desire to better comprehend these important new open education undertakings. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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