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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in online education technology have empowered learners all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are typically 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 a variety of subjects that e-learning technology organizations are having to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Afghanistan to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a growing desire to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants would like to better grasp these exciting new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this expanding desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also describes the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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