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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in online education technology are making it possible for students all over the world to participate in online classes. These massive online courses are commonly free 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 having to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Gibraltar to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle low student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these promising new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also addresses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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