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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in e-learning technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. MOOC classes are typically free for learners 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 numerous topics that online learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the quality of these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Eliademy to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants need to understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Trainers want to comprehend how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing demand for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This sensational new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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