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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in online learning have empowered students all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous topics that elearning technology institutions are struggling with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This inspiring new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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