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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in learning technology make it possible for people in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. These MOOC courses are usually free for learners 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that e-learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is improving so fast. How can participants ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Saint Helena to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a necessity to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this desire for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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