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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in online learning technology have enabled people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not 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 quite a few issues that online education organizations have to consider today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these interesting new open educational undertakings. Instructors want to perceive how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this growing demand for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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