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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies topics related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in e-learning technology have made it possible for humans all around the world to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning technology organizations must deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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