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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches topics regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern developments in e-learning are enabling students in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students 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 online education institutions are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more available there is a necessity to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational initiatives. Intellectuals want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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