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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in e-learning have empowered students in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions have to consider now that elearning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the quality of these MOOCs is acceptable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education undertakings. Instructors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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