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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in e-learning have enabled people all over the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning organizations have to consider today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the education provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Students want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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