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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in online learning are enabling people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free 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 many issues that e-learning institutions must deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. People want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this expanding demand for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This inspiring new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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