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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in elearning are enabling people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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