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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in online education technology are enabling learners all over the world to take part in online courses. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for learners 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 quite a few subjects that elearning organizations are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like openHPI to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education undertakings. Academics want to grasp how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this crescive need for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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