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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in elearning technology have enabled learners in every nation on earth to take online courses. These online MOOC courses 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 quite a few topics that learning technology institutions have to deal with now that learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Syria to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of these new open education ventures. Instructors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also talks about the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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