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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in learning technology have provided the means for people all over the world to participate in courses online. These massive open online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning organizations have to struggle with today because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education endeavours. Scholars want to understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive need for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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