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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in distance learning enable students all around the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that elearning institutions are having to consider now that online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage problems like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a desire to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Professors want to know how MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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