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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest developments in online learning enable humans in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning organizations are struggling with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these important new open educational ventures. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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