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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in online education are empowering people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free for learners 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 several issues that distance learning institutions have to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Honduras to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. People want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding demand for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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