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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in elearning make it possible for students all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these new open education undertakings. Academics want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also articulates the major 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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