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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in online education have empowered people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently 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 lot of issues that online learning organizations are having to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the training provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a necessity to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to better perceive these significant new open education endeavours. Scientists want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This inspiring new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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