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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online education enable humans all around the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are free 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 many topics that e-learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants ensure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like American Samoa to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants want to better perceive these open educational ventures. Academics want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this demand for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This exciting new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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