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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in online education are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. These massive online courses are usually free for students 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 a variety of issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these new open education ventures. Educators want to perceive how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this growing need for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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