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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in online education are enabling students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are numerous subjects that online learning organizations are having to deal with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators certify that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Ukraine to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Universities want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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