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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in e-learning technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Public servants want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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