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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in e-learning technology have empowered humans all around the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are almost always free 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 numerous topics that learning technology organizations have to consider today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend these open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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