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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in distance learning are enabling students in all parts of the world to take online classes. These massive open courses are mostly free for students 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many topics that online learning technology institutions are having to consider now that elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Palau to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to better understand these promising new open educational undertakings. Researchers want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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