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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in digital education technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are normally 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 quite a few issues that online education organizations are struggling with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This book also researches the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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