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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in learning technology have empowered students in nations all aver the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are usually 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 issues that elearning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these exciting new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This book also discusses the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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