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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in digital education technology enable people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this expanding demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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