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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest changes in electronic education technology enable students all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open online courses are usually free but do not 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 having to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Wesleyan University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a expanding demand to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these promising new open educational ventures. Everybody wants to comprehend how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this growing desideratum for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This new book also explores the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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