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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for people all around the world to take online classes. These online MOOCs are customarily 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 several issues that elearning technology organizations are having to consider today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Uruguay to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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