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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in online education are making it possible for people in nations all aver the world to participate in online classes. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for learners 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 many issues that elearning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Rwaq to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this expanding need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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