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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in online education are empowering people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are customarily free 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 several subjects that online learning technology institutions are struggling with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the education provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Peru to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a growing demand to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational undertakings. Universities want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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