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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in online education technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are ordinarily 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 many topics that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Mozambique to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants desire to better grasp these significant new open education undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This sensational new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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