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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in e-learning have empowered people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always 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 quite a few subjects that e-learning technology institutions have to deal with now that e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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