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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest developments in distance learning have enabled humans all over the world to take part in online classes. MOOC courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology institutions are struggling with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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