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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. New developments in online learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning institutions are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is all right? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also researches the most important 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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