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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in elearning technology have made it possible for humans all around the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can we be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different 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 participants deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing need for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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