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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern changes in digital education technology have empowered students in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these open education endeavours. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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