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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in learning technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to take online courses. MOOCs are customarily free for learners 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 quite a few subjects that online learning technology organizations are struggling with now that online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a increasing need to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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