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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in e-learning have empowered learners all around the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are usually 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 issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are struggling with today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by institutions like YouTube to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants desire to understand these fascinating new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this increasing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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