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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest advancements in online learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are commonly 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 quite a few issues that distance learning institutions have to consider more than ever because online education technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Belgium to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants desire to better comprehend these new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this developing desideratum for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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