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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in electronic education technology have made it possible for people in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are typically free for students 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 a lot of issues that elearning institutions are considering more than ever because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Marshall Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these fascinating new open educational experiments. Researchers want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also investigates the key 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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