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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in e-learning are empowering humans in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of these MOOC classes is adequate? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Instructors want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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