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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in digital education technology are providing the means for learners in nations all around the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students 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. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are many topics that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Estonia to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants want to understand these interesting new open educational ventures. People want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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