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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in elearning have empowered humans in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations must deal with today because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors 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 strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing need for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This book also investigates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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