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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent changes in elearning have provided the means for learners in nations all aver the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. 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 online MOOCs are typically 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 many issues that online education institutions are having to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers certify that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Brown University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage problems like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education undertakings. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This book also researches the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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