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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about topics related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in elearning have enabled students all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These online MOOC courses are 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. There are numerous issues that online education organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Relay Graduate School of Education to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open educational experiments. Professors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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