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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in online education technology are providing the means for people in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are normally free for students 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 a variety of subjects that online learning technology organizations have to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these open education endeavours. Educators want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this increasing demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also discusses 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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