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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in elearning are enabling people in nations all aver the world to take part in classes online. These MOOC classes are customarily free for learners 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 topics that learning technology institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Marquette University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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