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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in e-learning are empowering people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive online courses are usually 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 many subjects that e-learning organizations have to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so fast. How can participants make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Seychelles to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Students want to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also reviews the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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