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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in elearning enable students in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. MOOC classes are commonly free for learners 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 numerous issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Iran to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This book also examines the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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