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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in distance learning technology are enabling people all over the world to participate in online courses. These massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants want to understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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