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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in elearning are enabling humans in nations all aver the world to take part in courses online. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are having to consider now that e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational endeavours. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also studies the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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