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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in digital education technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants desire to better grasp these exciting new open education undertakings. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also describes the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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