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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in elearning enable humans all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOC classes are typically free but do not 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 topics that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can participants be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like The New School to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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