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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in electronic educational technology have enabled humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. MOOCs are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with today because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on low student motivation and high dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and lots of other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education undertakings. Scholars want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This inspiring new book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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