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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning technology are empowering students in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning institutions must deal with now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders certify that the training provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this developing desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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