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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in online education technology enable humans all around the world to participate in online classes. These online MOOC courses are almost always free 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 quite a few topics that online learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can teachers assure that the education provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Djibouti to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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