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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in digital education technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions are considering today because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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