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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in elearning technology have empowered students in nations all around the world to take part in classes online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students 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 numerous issues that online education organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants make sure that the quality of these MOOCs is respectable? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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