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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in electronic educational technology have empowered students all over the world to participate in online classes. MOOC classes are almost always 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 online learning technology organizations are struggling with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Benin to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This inspiring new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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