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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in electronic education technology are enabling people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are usually 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 many topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to consider more than ever because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can learners certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Ross Dependency to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also talks about the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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