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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in learning technology have enabled students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners 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 numerous subjects that online learning institutions have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Eritrea to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these exciting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This thrilling new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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