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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest advancements in online education have empowered learners in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. These massive online courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning organizations must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants certify that the quality of these MOOC classes is decent? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage low motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Scientists want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also articulates 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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