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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in digital education technology enable learners all over the world to take 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. These massive online courses are mostly free for learners 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 issues that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Queen Maud Land to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Teachers want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This sensational new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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