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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in elearning technology are empowering humans in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. These massive open courses are mostly 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 several topics that online learning organizations are dealing with today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Elidaemy to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open education initiatives. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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