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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education technology are enabling students in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators make sure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. People want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this growing need for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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