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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent changes in online education technology have enabled humans all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of topics that elearning institutions are having to deal with now that online education technology is improving so fast. How can we make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders need to better understand these compelling new open education experiments. Scholars want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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