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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in digital education technology are making it possible for learners all around the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not 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 topics that e-learning institutions are struggling with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can participants certify that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Twitter to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp these new open education experiments. Researchers want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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