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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in digital education technology have made it possible for humans in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOCs are almost always free but do not 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 topics that e-learning institutions are struggling with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Vanuatu to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also describes the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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