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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for people in nations all aver the world to participate in online classes. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners 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 quite a few topics that online education organizations are dealing with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Mozambique to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like poor motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these new open educational initiatives. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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