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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern developments in electronic education technology have empowered learners in all parts of the world to take online courses. These MOOCs are almost always 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 several issues that e-learning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This inspiring new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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