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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines subjects related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online learning technology have made it possible for people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are almost always 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 several issues that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Ecuador to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to understand these interesting new open educational undertakings. Educators want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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