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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in online education are empowering learners all over the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are usually 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 several topics that elearning technology organizations are struggling with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Grenada to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing demand for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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