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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in online education technology are empowering students all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are mostly 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. There are a lot of topics that elearning organizations have to consider now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand these important new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also describes the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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