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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in e-learning technology have enabled people all over the world to take part in online classes. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are having to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we assure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational initiatives. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also addresses the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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