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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in distance learning technology have provided the means for people in nations all aver the world to participate in online courses. These MOOCs are ordinarily 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 quite a few subjects that e-learning technology organizations have to deal with today because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. Trainers want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also considers the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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