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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in electronic educational technology are enabling people all around the world to take online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning organizations are having to consider now that online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle low motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open education ventures. Universities want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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