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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online education technology make it possible for humans in nations all aver the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are free for students 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 topics that online education organizations are dealing with today because online education technology is developing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these new open educational experiments. Trainers want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also deals with the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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