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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest changes in elearning are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many topics that online education institutions are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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