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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in online learning technology enable students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are commonly 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 quite a few issues that e-learning organizations are struggling with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a demand to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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