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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in digital education technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily 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 several issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to consider today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to better understand these compelling new open educational ventures. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this developing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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