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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in elearning technology enable students in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. 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. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners 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 organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to better perceive these interesting new open education initiatives. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this expanding need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This book also talks about the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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