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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern developments in e-learning technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education undertakings. Everybody wants to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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