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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern developments in elearning make it possible for people in all parts of the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily 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. There are numerous topics that online learning institutions are having to struggle with now that distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Case Western Reserve University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Academics want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this growing desideratum for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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