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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in online education have empowered people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are typically free for learners 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 quite a few topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to consider now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders need to better understand these compelling new open educational initiatives. Everyone wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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