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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online learning have empowered humans all around the world to take part in online courses. These MOOC classes are typically free for students 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 numerous issues that elearning institutions have to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can participants make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Samoa to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education ventures. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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