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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in online education are empowering students all around the world to take courses online. These MOOCs are typically free for learners 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 topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to consider more than ever because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these significant new open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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