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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in learning technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a necessity to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and many other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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