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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in digital education technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently 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 a lot of topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers certify that the quality of these MOOC courses is all right? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like WizIQ to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding desideratum for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also describes the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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