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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in elearning have made it possible for students in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. These massive open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Niue to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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