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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online learning technology are empowering students all over the world to take online classes. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. 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 online education organizations are dealing with today because learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these open educational experiments. Scholars want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this crescive need for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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