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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in elearning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are generally free for students but do not 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 elearning institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Guinea-Bissau to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education ventures. Lecturers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This book also deals with the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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