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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in electronic educational technology enable learners all over the world to participate in online classes. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students 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 elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality control for these MOOCs is adequate? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Teachers want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also deals with the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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