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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest gains in online education are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are normally free but do not always 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 issues that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Northwestern University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these significant new open educational experiments. Students want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This inspiring new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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