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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in online learning technology have made it possible for students in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are customarily 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 lot of subjects that e-learning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these promising new open educational undertakings. Everybody wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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