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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New changes in digital education technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many topics that online learning institutions are having to consider now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing demand for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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