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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in online education have empowered learners in nations all aver the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education institutions have to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants would like to better understand these promising new open educational initiatives. Professors want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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