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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in e-learning technology are providing the means for students in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC classes 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. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are numerous topics that online learning technology organizations are having to consider now that online education technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Tunisia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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