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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in elearning are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. These massive open courses are generally 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 issues that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that elearning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like American College of Education to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a necessity to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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