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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in technology-enhanced learning have enabled learners all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are a variety of topics that blended learning institutions are struggling with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants make sure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like The University of Chicago to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants want to understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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