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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in electronic education technology enable learners in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. These online MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that e-learning institutions must deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations certify that the quality of these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive these important new open education initiatives. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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