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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in distance learning are making it possible for people in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. These online MOOCs are 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 several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Researchers want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this increasing demand for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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