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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern changes in elearning have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning technology organizations are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can educators ensure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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