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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in e-learning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC 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 numerous subjects that online learning organizations are having to consider today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Guinea-Bissau to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Professors want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also reviews the 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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