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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in distance learning have empowered people in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are normally free 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 many subjects that online education organizations are having to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a desideratum to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders need to better understand these new open education ventures. Universities want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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