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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern changes in online education are enabling people all over the world to take classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses are mostly 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 a variety of topics that elearning technology institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like China, Republic of (Taiwan) to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these open education endeavours. Academics want to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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