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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in elearning have empowered people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are customarily 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 quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like YouTube to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders need to better perceive these new open educational endeavours. Educators want to perceive how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This gripping new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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