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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in distance learning technology are enabling humans all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are normally 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 quite a few topics that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Somalia to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to understand these interesting new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this developing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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