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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new evolvements in digital education technology are empowering students in nations all aver the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are generally 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 numerous topics that elearning institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is respectable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Jamaica to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and many other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Trainers want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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