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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in distance learning technology have enabled people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive online courses are normally free but do not always 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 topics that online learning institutions are dealing with now that online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like China, Republic of (Taiwan) to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders want to understand these open education initiatives. Public servants want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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