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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in elearning are enabling students all around the world to take classes online. MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not always 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 issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Romania to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants need to better understand these significant new open educational endeavours. Students want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This thrilling new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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