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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in electronic educational technology have enabled students all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily 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 numerous subjects that online learning technology institutions are struggling with today because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Jarvis Island to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. People want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing need for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also explores the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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