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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in e-learning are enabling learners all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology institutions have to deal with now that learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Scientists want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this desire for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also explores the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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