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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in e-learning technology are providing the means for students all around the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free 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 several issues that online learning institutions are dealing with now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Chad to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desideratum for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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