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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in distance learning are enabling humans all around the world to take classes online. These massively open online courses are normally 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 a variety of topics that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Macedonia to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a developing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this increasing desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also deals with the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Educational Resources