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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in digital education technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp these intriguing new open educational initiatives. Everyone wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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