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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in online education have made it possible for students all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that elearning technology institutions are considering today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these significant new open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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