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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in electronic education technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are customarily 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 many issues that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can organizations make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to better understand these significant new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also deals with the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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