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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in elearning have provided the means for learners all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily 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 quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a developing desire to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Professors want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding desideratum for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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