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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in online education technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massive open online courses are typically free for learners 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 several subjects that online learning technology organizations are struggling with now that online learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders need to better perceive these open educational experiments. Teachers want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this developing need for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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