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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in digital education technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. 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 customarily free for students 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 several issues that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education ventures. People want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding demand for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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