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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in elearning are enabling learners in all parts of the world to take online courses. These massively open online courses are customarily 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 many issues that online learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Brunei to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can organizations handle problems like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing need to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing desideratum for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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