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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in e-learning are enabling people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily 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 quite a few issues that e-learning technology institutions are considering today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Guatemala to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also addresses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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