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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies subjects related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in elearning technology are enabling people all around the world to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners 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 a lot of issues that online learning institutions are struggling with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Namibia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education undertakings. Educators want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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