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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in electronic education technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to take online courses. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners 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 numerous topics that elearning technology organizations are dealing with now that online education technology is improving so fast. How can educators certify that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like UC San Diego to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education experiments. Students want to better understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This gripping new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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