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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in distance learning have empowered humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers certify that the quality control for these MOOC classes is adequate? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants need to better comprehend these new open education undertakings. Corporations want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing need for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also deals with the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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