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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies topics related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in learning technology are making it possible for students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are commonly 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 many issues that learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers make sure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Somaliland to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Researchers want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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