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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in electronic education technology have provided the means for people all over the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that e-learning technology organizations have to consider today because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can educators assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by institutions like One Month to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational undertakings. Public servants want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this crescive desire for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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