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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in elearning have made it possible for learners all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open online courses are almost always free 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 online education institutions are having to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like One Month to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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