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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in electronic education technology have enabled learners in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students 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 many issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these open educational endeavours. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this increasing desideratum for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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