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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online learning technology enable students in all parts of the world to take classes online. These MOOCs are mostly 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 lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Haiti to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle issues like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open education endeavours. Educators want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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