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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates subjects having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in learning technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are almost always free 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 several topics that e-learning organizations are having to consider now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Suriname to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also studies the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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