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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in electronic educational technology are making it possible for learners all around the world to be participants in classes online. These massive open online courses are customarily free 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 a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like Malawi to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Universities want to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this increasing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also reviews the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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