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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in electronic education technology have provided the means for students all around the world to participate in classes online. MOOC 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 quite a few subjects that e-learning institutions have to consider now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Greece to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this desideratum for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also explores the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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