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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in digital education technology have made it possible for people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions have to deal with now that online education technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a demand to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Public servants want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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