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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in online education are empowering learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students 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 numerous topics that online education institutions must deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with low motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants need to understand these intriguing new open education undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing demand for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This inspiring new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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