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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in digital education technology are making it possible for students all around the world to take online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open online courses are mostly free 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 several topics that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like MOOEC to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education initiatives. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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