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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in online learning technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to take courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning organizations are dealing with today because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the training provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these intriguing new open educational initiatives. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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