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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in e-learning are providing the means for humans in nations all around the world to take online courses. These online MOOCs are generally 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations must deal with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of these MOOC classes is adequate? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Otis College of Art and Design to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this desire for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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