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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take classes online. These MOOC classes are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage problems like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education endeavours. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also articulates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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