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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in electronic education technology are enabling students all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students 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 topics that e-learning organizations must deal with now that learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a necessity to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to understand these intriguing new open education endeavours. Scholars want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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