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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in learning technology are providing the means for people all around the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are commonly 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 online learning organizations have to deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Everybody wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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