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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advancements in electronic education technology are empowering people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free for learners but do not always 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 a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can participants certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like Benin to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open educational ventures. Teachers want to perceive how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this desideratum for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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