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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in online education technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are commonly free for students but do not 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 several subjects that elearning organizations are dealing with more than ever because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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