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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. New changes in e-learning enable people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always 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 a lot of topics that elearning technology institutions are having to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we certify that the quality control for these MOOC classes is passable? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Cornell University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to perceive how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also describes the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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