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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in online education have empowered learners all over the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators make sure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend these important new open education undertakings. Lecturers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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