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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in online education technology have empowered students in nations all aver the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not always 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 subjects that distance learning institutions are struggling with now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions be assured that the quality control for these massive open online courses is respectable? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like China, People's Republic of to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these important new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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