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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning technology are enabling people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this expanding need for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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