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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in e-learning are enabling learners all around the world to take part in online classes. These massive open online courses are mostly free for students 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 institutions must deal with today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can participants get a handle on low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. People want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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