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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are typically 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 several issues that e-learning institutions have to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like MenaVersity to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage issues like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also researches the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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