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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in distance learning are providing the means for people all around the world to take courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning organizations have to struggle with now that online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Researchers want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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