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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in online education enable learners in every nation on earth to take classes online. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations are considering more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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