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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in e-learning technology have made it possible for people in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always 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 numerous issues that online education organizations are dealing with more than ever because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Eliademy to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators manage issues like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Corporations want to perceive how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This book also explores the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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