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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take online classes. These MOOCs are ordinarily 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 quite a few topics that e-learning technology organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Tonga to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a growing desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Corporations want to perceive how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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