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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in e-learning technology enable people in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to today because learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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