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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest developments in e-learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in online classes. Massive open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not always 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 subjects that distance learning organizations are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these MOOCs is adequate? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Djibouti to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of these new open education experiments. Students want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this developing demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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